HALFORDS GROUP PLC: PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

Halfords Group PLC announces that on 19 May 2011 it purchased for cancellation 180,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 396.5p per ordinary share.

Following the above purchase, the Company has now bought back 3,665,000 shares for cancellation, since 7 April 2011 when the buy back programme commenced.